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I’ve been designing, 3D printing and building some set pieces and active hand props for an upcoming Halloween event (which I informally refer to as The Derelict because I’m a huge Alien nerd. That’s not the actual name.) The theme is a spaceship over-run by an alien infection that has turned the crew into, well, we’re…

So let me just get this confession out of the way. I love Kerry Conran’s Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I love it to death, warts and all. Roger Ebert said of the film, “It’s like a film that escaped from the imagination directly onto the screen, without having to pass through reality…

I’ve put this one off for ages. I’ve always wanted to scratch-build a Space:1999 Commlock but I’ve seen it done by real masters of scratch-building. I’m calling it a prototype in that the idea was to figure out how to build one well by building one at all. And, yeah, I was nervous about not…

I needed something steam-punkish and a little gross. What’s more gross than a brain in a box, I ask you? Like the Cthulhu box, this is made from a craft store box, followed by paint, rub-n-buff and a wash of black acrylic. The fake lock, corners and other bits were fabricated from brass and upholstery…

UPDATE: The STLS for the psrtas for the stand shown below can be found in my designs on Thingiverse. UPDATE: I’ve since built another Samaritan. This one full-sized and finished more realistically. More pics later, but here’s a shot of it right after finishing it. Back to the original post… I probably implied I was…

FYI: This box is available for sale on my Etsy shop. This was a weekend build (but more like two evenings) of a prototype for an idea I had earlier in the week; A box for Cthulhu cultists to hold sacred artifacts. I’m happy with how it turned out, however I think the next version…

I built this recently for the Atlanta Star Party to auction off for their charity. It’s an 18″ (plus stand) replica of the Spaceship of the Imagination from the new Cosmos series. I first built up two sections using foamcore as a base (with a hole left for the sphere). On top of this I slathered quite a…